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Special preparations required for CA elections: Upreti

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BIRATNAGAR, Sept. 26: Acting Chief Commissioner of the Election Commission (EC), Nilkantha Upreti, has said that preparations for the election should be special as the election to the Constituent Assembly (CA) is also of special type as compared to other elections.



Upreti made this remark while talking to media persons here today.[break]



Stating that elections could be held with complete preparations only if the government clearly informed the EC before 120 days of the date of the CA election, he said difficulties will be surfaced to hold elections if there was no amendment of the Election Act and if other processes were not completed.



Upreti said consensus should be forged among political parties before declaring the date of election and there should be amendment in laws and acts related to election.



Stating that there is a constitutional crisis in the country, he said a total of 11 million names of voters have been collected where three million populations is out of the country and names of 1.2 million people have not been registered.



Meanwhile, Upreti laid the foundation stone of a new building of Election Office to be constructed at Prativa Chowk-13 in Morang district today.The building with 15 rooms is going to be constructed at a cost of Rs. 20.8 million.



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